What if we connected education to the needs of our economies?

What if we connected education to the needs of our economies?
Efosa Ojomo, Christensen Institute, 2018/04/06
I think a lot about why we are teaching as well as about what we are teaching and of course how we are teaching. This post suggests (as we have so often heard before) tying education to the economy. Education, writes Efosa Ojomo, is depicted as a means to gain employment and climb the economic ladder, but "we see, time and time again, is that when education is disconnected from the needs of the economy, this promise falls flat." But what are, I ask, the needs of the economy. More...